[Husker] Positive thoughts

[Duane Feldman]

I'm not sure how you show "dramatic improvement" next year without a corresponding improvement in record.  We played four top ten teams tough and "should have won" two of those.  I can't imagine how Callahan shows dramatic improvement without affecting the record.  A second season of five close losses merely emphasizes that Callahan can't win against good teams and would show me that we are standing still.

A 10-4 season next year is the minimum to keep the heat off of Callahan IMHO, although even that record would be a disappointment to me just as this year's 9-5 record was a disappointment.  Still given the greater number of games, if BC can win 10 games per season, I'll stick with him as I did Osborne when he was winning just 9 per year.  

OTOH, I can't imagine any situation where a coach would be fired with only three losses (wait, there is something floating in my memory that relates to this situation -- hazy recollections -- the name "Frankie" comes to mind . . . .).

Duane Feldman


----- Original Message ----
From: "Knox, Chuck" CGKnox at pella.com


>Let me ask this, and I'll try to phrase this carefully...If, as Dick
>suggests, NU does show dramatic improvement next year, and perhaps not
>have an improved record...will that be acceptable??? . . . . But how long will it continue to be
>acceptable to show improvement without the record to back it up?  . . .  Regardless of the
>"improvement" shown by the team, at some point I would think losing even
>3 games a year would not be viewed as acceptable.  What is that point?  

Chuck Knox